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The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s

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Re: The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s

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Post by LeoPanthera »

yaomtc wrote: post #12
jszymborski wrote: post #5

SD-card capable with Opus support, that's all I ever want frankly, and this has it. Will certainly be interested to see what price this launches at.

Some older portable media players are supported by Rockbox, which supports Opus. Unclear if there's any supported devices currently in production. As for SD cards, I know SanDisk devices on that list supported microSD cards. https://www.rockbox.org/

The downside is that most older players can decode MP3 and AAC in hardware but Opus has to be done in the CPU, which causes a big hit on battery life.

Re: The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s

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Post by manmal »

daeros wrote: post #9
jszymborski wrote: post #5

SD-card capable with Opus support, that's all I ever want frankly, and this has it. Will certainly be interested to see what price this launches at.

for me it was sd cards and mp3 and flac support, any insight into why you prefer opus?

Opus is Vorbis‘ successor. Vorbis should no longer be used for encoding, except if you need to stay backwards compatible. Eg if you needed to shrink a FLAC collection I‘d use Opus.

Re: The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s

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Post by beAbU »

shzhdbi09gv8ioi wrote: post #23

Cool, rockbox? Oh, not rockbox... Well, rockbox was cool and we had it in the early 2000s. Don't know whats with the revisionistic headline. https://www.rockbox.org/

I had a classic iPod mini that I modded with a 64GB CF card, so no more mechanical hard drive, and it had rockbox installed.

It was the perfect music player, and I had it in the late 2000s.

It even had DOOM on it!

Re: The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s

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Post by stndef »

devindotcom wrote: post #8
Minor49er wrote: post #2

This looks promising. Pretty much all modern portable music players are janky Android devices with awful hardware and software. I've been looking for something to dethrone the Zune HD for me, which has a small form factor and intuitive interface

I still have mine but left it in a drawer years ago because it wouldn't sync any more. Is there a modern solution?

Scott Hanselman released a video[1] not too long ago that covers reviving a Zune in 2023, if that's of any use!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-ZPx-h5ApU

Re: The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s

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Post by tetris11 »

shzhdbi09gv8ioi wrote: post #23

Cool, rockbox? Oh, not rockbox... Well, rockbox was cool and we had it in the early 2000s. Don't know whats with the revisionistic headline. https://www.rockbox.org/

I still use my Sanclip Plus because of rockbox. What a great project

Re: The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s

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Post by ZoomZoomZoom »

tetris11 wrote: post #28
shzhdbi09gv8ioi wrote: post #23

Cool, rockbox? Oh, not rockbox... Well, rockbox was cool and we had it in the early 2000s. Don't know whats with the revisionistic headline. https://www.rockbox.org/

I still use my Sanclip Plus because of rockbox. What a great project

How come it haven't died still? They're are notorious for their internal memory crapping out.
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